Thanks for you reading. Thanks for the kind words! Are you building a gate? Where? Send us pictures on whatever you do. We’d love to see them.

Thanks for commenting Suzanne!

I have a similar dilemma. I am an artist blacksmith and use scrolls in most of my work. What I found is that powder coating is excellent for smooth flat surfaces, but it does not appear to get right into the nooks and crannies created by scrolls, particularly the complicated ones. As a result you end up with rust hair, as mentioned earlier. I would tend to agree that paint is better in this context.

Very cool!

Thanks for your comment! It is really impossible to avoid all pinholes – especially on fence because there is usually so much of it. You are going to have issues painting or powder coating steel either way. It is hard enough on gates. Really conscientious welders will minimize it. We do our absolute best, but they are sneaky. We have started suggesting to anyone that wants anything but a rust-patina for the finished on their gates that they consider aluminum. That is the only way we can completely avoid the issue. I’m not sure if that is an option for your fence, but if it is … you might ask about that.

I don’t know what kind of parts you are referring to, but we are not opposed to powder coating when it is necessary. There are some things that should be powder coated.

So far as paint scratching of … all depends on kind of paint and how it was applied.

Thank you for sharing!

I can easily scratch paint off with my fingernail. When a customer brings a part and doesn’t know if it’s been painted or powder coated, I’ll scratch with a fingernail and if it comes off it’s paint